MY DOLL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 64, 2 March 1929, Page 14

MY DOLL

Dear Chief Kiwi, —I will tell you about my lucky day. On Saturday my friend asked me to go to the Band Shop and X had to finish those awful dishes. That was the worst part of the day. I then dressed myself and started off. When we got there tny friend asked me to have an ice-cream. There was a doll I was looking at, and a lady came and asked me to have a guess, but I had no money, so the lady shouted me. At last came the time to raffle, and the lady asked me to pick a niece of paper out of the hat. I could not see in it, but I picked a piece, and it had mv own number on it. so I won the doll. Blue Certificate to Ina Mackay, age 11 years, 206 Lascelles street, Hastings. PETERKIN’S ADVENTURES Dear Chief Kiwi, —Thank you for the certificate. 1 will continue with I'eterkin's adventures. I was then shipped to England (continued the woollen frock), and taken to a Yorkshire woollen mill, where 1 was cleaned, spun into fine wool and dyed pale pink. Having been wound into numbers of skeins, I was sent back to New Zealand, to a shop in Hastings. For a long time I lay shut up in a box at the back of the shop. Then, oh, joy 1 I was taken out and hung in the window'. I had been there a long time, when one day an old lady came in and tisked for four skeins of the pink wool, and I was taken out. I went to the old lady’s home, and next day she knitted me into this frock and sent me to her granddaughter. Ngaire Farmer. I was her nest frock, then her second best, but now I lie here where the pup left off worrying me this morning. Peterkin was soon strong again. Indeed, too strong, for he had a pair of fine horns, of which he made good use —in fact, Chief Kiwi. I felt them myself. Mr Farmer had to sell him. I will close now with love to yourself and the other Kiwis. But a last warning! If ever you meet Peterkin—run I —Blue Certificate to Edyth Thom, age 14 years, Maraeotara, Havelock North. ♦ * * * MY CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS Dear Chief Kiwi,—This year I had a pleasant surprise for my Christmas holidays in the form of a nice trip to Taupo, Rotorua, and surrounding districts. Leaving Hastings on December 15th at about halfpast eleven, we had a lovely drive over the hills to Taupo, arriving there about 7 o’clock. Although we took about seven hours, we went slowly, stopping here and there to view the scenery, and also at Tarawera. When wo arrived at Taupo we had dinner, and then went out in the car to the wharf and to see the Spa Hotel. We came home and went to bed, as it was then 9.30 p.m. After breakfast nevt morning we again went to the Spa. and saw the geysers, hot pools, and boiling mud, etc. After lunch we drove to Wairakei Valley and saw geysers that before the earthquake five years ago went up to 150 feet, but now only go up to about 15 feet. We then went to the Aratiatia Rapids and to the Huka Falls, arriving back at the hotel in time for dinner, after which we had an A.C. bath, which is about 103 degrees. Well. Chief Kiwi, I must close with best love. (To be continued.)

—Blue Certificate tn Lewis Clarke, age 12 years, 500 E Avenue road, Hastings. B*®*®*®*®*®*®*®*®*®’

“WILD BLOOD.”

One of the star features for screening at the Cosy de Luxe for Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, featuring “the devil horse” “Rex,” claimed to be the king of equine stars, in a thrilling photodrama of the wild wastes. Here’s an outdoor story of considerable entertaining value to all who love animal acting. Rex, the wonderful black steed, who has so many times graced the screen, is claimed to be different in “Wild Blood” to all his other screen successes. ♦ * » Wt * “THE LAST COMMAND” Coming on Wednesday to the Municipal Theatre. 1 Emil Jannings, the great European character artist,, who has scored so heavily in this country with “The Way of All Flesh” and others for Paramount, has never had a scene “stolen” from him by another actor. When the case was selected to support Mr .Jannings for “The Last Command,” all Hollywood was agog, for the cast included one of the greatest scene “thieves” in the industry, that person being William Powell, who portrays suave villian roles. Although Mr. Powell does not intentionally t.ry to overshadow the star he supports, it is a fact that his work and personality has stood out in most every case above that of the featured player. Just svhat luck Jannings will have in “The Last Command” remains to be seen against this screen thief. As if Powell himself was not enough to iqpe with, another actor who is steadily gaining recognition by the same method is Nicholas Soussanin. He appears' as Jannings’ adjutant in the production. Jannings’ fans, however, point. out that this sterling character actor has always been able to hold bis own in competition with the best Europe and this country can afford, and there is little doubt in their minds that Jannings will dominate in this one. Evelyn Brent will play opposite to Jannings in “The Last Command,” which comes to the Municipal Theatre on Wednesday. * * ♦ ♦ “THE WATER HOLE” A Zane Grey story for the Cosy de ,Luxe programme on Saturday, Monday and Tuesday. Scenes for the Paramount production of Zane Grey’s story, “The Water Hole,” which the Cosy de Luxe theatre will feature for three days, starting Saturday, were actually filmed in Arizona, the locale of the story. Jack Holt plays the leading role in this drama of society life in the cities and primitive life in t.he deesrt. The story “The Water Hole,” first appeared in Colliers’ Weekly, where it had a wide reading, and Zane Grey expanded it into a novel. The tale is unusual for Zane Grey, because its Western scenes are only incidental to the main theme of the story. Paramount has made this story into one of the big specials

of the year, measuring it with the former successful Zane Grey production “Wanderer of the Wasteland.” The filming was done partly in technicolour and beautiful vistas of the gorgeous Arizona desert region are included in the film. '** w * “THE CAMERAMAN.” Wednesday’s attraction at the Cosy de Luxe is a Keaton comedy, scheduled for riotous laughter. Buster Keaton has extracted comedy from steamships and prize fights, bicycles and a locomotive, but now he has hit upon what, so far, seems to be absolutely the funniest in his career. He gets his laughs aided and abetted by a news reel movie camera of ancient vintage, with three tripod legs that get tangled in everything from a subway to a motor-boat propeller, landing him in the most comical series of troubles he’s ever experienced. This is the situation in “The Cameraman,” Keaton’s new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy which comes on Wednesday to the Cosy de Luxe. It is a hilarious succession of trials, tribulations and troubles, with a love romance with pretty Marcelain “ay on the side and a spectacular Chinatown- tong war with machine gun embellishments for a huge thrill. “ThS Cameraman” was directed by Edward Sedgwick, and shows Keaton as an aspiring newsreel man chasing the elusive “story” in a big city. Harold Goodwin plays the “heavy” role as Stagg, star cameraman, and Buster’s rival flor Marclinc, and Sydney Bracy, Harry Gibbon and others of note are in the cast. A complete Chinatown street with five hundred Oriental actors marked the big battle scene in the picture, and several thousand appear in the boat race sequences and in the huge street scecns. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ “HORSEMAN OF THE PLAINS” Starts at the- Municipal Theatre Saturday. Pat Chrisman, who has been ranch foreman at the Mjx ranch for over 20 years, was mainly responsible for the discovery of Tony, back in 1916. Tom Mix and Chrisman were driving along Hollywood Boulevard when they were attracted by the smartness of a young colt tethered by the foadsidc. That night both men visited the owner’s home and drove a bargain for the horse. Tony was turned into the jyjix corral where he romped through a whole winter and summer. In the fall Mix, with the aid of Chrisman, broke the colt to various saddle gaits. Tony’s aptitude to understand was manifested more and more as he grew and Mix finally decided to use him in pictures. Naturally, he figures prominently in the action of Tom’s latest Fox picture. “Horseman of the Plains,” which comes to the Municipal Theatre on Saturday to Tuesday. Pat Chrisman makes one of his infrequent screen appearances in this picture together with Sally Blane, Heinie Conklin and others.